Soda-water apparatus



(No Model.)

W. H. GREENE.

SODA WATER APPARATUS. No. 308,558. Patented NOVVZB, 1884.

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SODA-WATER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,558, dated November 25, 1884.

Application filed September 25, 1883. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. GREENE, of Danbury, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soda-Water Apparatus; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the same.

In drawing sirups from an apparatus in which all the sirups discharge through one main outlet a portion of the sirup drawn must necessarily be left in the discharge-pipe, and thus become mixed with the next kind drawn.

The object of one of my improvements is to obviate this trouble, which is accomplished by adding to the apparatusawater-pipe for washing out the main discharge after each kind of sirup has been drawn, which pipe is clearly represented in drawings, Figure 1, and'is also clearly explained in the description which follows.

Fig. 1 is a side sectional view. internal top View.

a a is a pipe connecting a receptacle for water under pressure with the main dischargepipe Iin front of the usual soda-water cock, 9. The other cocks in the main discharge-pipe I are lettered in the drawings 72, and each has pull, p, as is usual in my soda fountains. The cocks are connected with pipes to the vessels I), which hold the various kinds of sirnps.

A represents a vessel arranged in any convenient place or in any convenient form in the case, for the especial purpose of holding dry soda, and into which is inserted a cock pull or valve, G, for the purpose of drawing out the dry soda into a glass or tumbler.

B is a fan, designed to produce a draft of Fig. 2 is an air to agitate the air in the vicinity of the apparatus and enhance the com fort of those standing near it. Incidentally, also, itwill serve to drive away flies and other insects, and can be propelled by a spring, Q, or any other proper and convenient motive power.

F is the case or framing of the apparatus, and I construct it of zinc.

The case may be made cheaply and at the same time made highly ornate by constructing of cast-zinc plates or sections FF, united by tongue and groove, as at f, and secured together by solder or otherwise. The special ornamental design, like the proportions of the parts, is capable of infinite variation, and does not require any illustration, asit may be either a matter of fancy or separate invention. The methods of joining the separate sections may also be greatly varied, and may also be either a matter of choice or of separate invention.

It is usual in fountains to wash or drive the sirups, which have been letinto the main dis- 6 charge-pipe I from the vessels holding the same, out and into the glass or tumbler by the force of the soda-water, which, in the drawings, enters the fountain through pipe T.

In my improvement I can draw from the 6 5 dry-soda vessel A a sufficient quantity of the dry soda into a glass, and then by means of .the pull connecting with the pressure waterpipe discharge a force of water through the main discharge-pipe I into the glass, thereby 7o mixing the water and soda in the glass.

Previous to the discharge of water the sirups must of course have been let from the vessel or vessels containing them into the main discharge-pip e.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new is A sodawaterdispensing apparatus colnbined with a receptacle for water under pressure and a pipe to discharge said water at will into the main discharge pipe I immediately back of the combination of sirup-cocks, to wash said pipe of residual sirup, as set forth.

WVILLIAM H. GREENE.

Witnesses:

J. WV. SAGENDORF, D. W. LEWIs. 

